For the past year, I’ve enjoyed XM (now SiriusXM) satellite radio. One of my presets is The Loft, whose format I like except when Dave Marsh DJs.

Marsh has been around since the beginning of rock and roll, something he likes to assert as often as possible. Worse though, every interview he seems to view as a chance to name drop and talk about himself (it’s tortured fun once in a while to listen to his guest try to get a word in edgewise), every musical segue is a chance to promote his tiresome writing.

What’s really pathetic is that just a few notches down the radio dial from the bloviating, self-aggrandizing Marsh is a humbler, infinitely more knowledgable and talented fellow DJ, Bob Dylan, for whom it really is all about the music.